. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. t fell last night, and which whitened the mount-ains of Kingaite this morning, has disappeared during the day. Friday, September Qth. Anothcrterrible night of struggle withpains. When shall I be well again ? The fine weather of to-dayhas been of some benefit. God be praised. This morning, at an early hour, I was up. I might as wellhave been up all night; for, though down on a soft tuktoo bed,and dry, yet I could get no sweet sleep. When the tide was up sufficient to set the boat afloat,I gotKoojesse and Koodloo to ferry me across the river, t
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. t fell last night, and which whitened the mount-ains of Kingaite this morning, has disappeared during the day. Friday, September Qth. Anothcrterrible night of struggle withpains. When shall I be well again ? The fine weather of to-dayhas been of some benefit. God be praised. This morning, at an early hour, I was up. I might as wellhave been up all night; for, though down on a soft tuktoo bed,and dry, yet I could get no sweet sleep. When the tide was up sufficient to set the boat afloat,I gotKoojesse and Koodloo to ferry me across the river, that I mightvisit the peculiar sight which had been constantly staring me in 410 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. my face during my five days stop at the fifteenth visited that phenomenon; I mounted it, and went around italso. It is a mount of marine fossils in limestone, half a milelong, and over a hundred feet high. It presents something ofthis appearance, the long line of Kingaite mountains behindstretching away to the Gateway SILLIMAHS FOSBtl. MODST. * * •::• •:> >. T/hc debris of the fossils begins at or near thetop of the mount, falling at such an angle as broken stone from amountain always makes—an inclination of about -i0°. Above thetalus, or heap of broken stones, is a mass of fossils in limestone,strata-like. A smaller mount* of the same character is close by,but all in debris. It seems to have been divided from the main bythe rushing down of waters from the mountains behind. A smallstream comes down the mountains, passes along, and finally makesits way out between the two fossil mounts. This is also indica-ted in the course of this stream, as an acre or more of the plain * The small mount referred to is not represented in tlie illustration, but is to theright, or northwest of the main one. SILLIMANS FOSSIL MOUNT. 411 is covered several feet in depth with the washcd-down debris offossils. I picked up several specimens, and have them w
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